บท 75: remember?
Nearing dawn a boy clothed in black could be seen crawling on a roof's edge watching a coach being pulled by two horses in a hurry. The guards riding around the coach look wary and keep glancing around as if afraid the shadows in the corner would come to life.
The guards are riding in formation where there are one guard riding on each side and four guards following from the back with two other guards are acting as the Coachman.
Gritting his teeth, the boy shy back from the edge of the roof before rising to a crouch and pulls out a dagger and a sword from his inventory.
The boy are Vayne, back when he race for the inn he finally took notice of his mangled arm and the blood trail it left once adrenaline wore off so he took a detour to throw off pursuers and heal his arm.
It might be coincidence or luck but he caught the conversation from passing patrols speaking of someone breaking into the mayor's manor and killed the Garrison leader, the treasurer, and the region's merchant guild representative who were meeting up with the town's mayor.
It was by pure luck that although the mayor was poisoned, one of the guards that came to his rescue knows how to use healing magic and able to detoxify the poison.
Hearing that he decides to verify it with his own eyes and arrive just in time as the mayor climb into the coach, he had been following it since.
Although this is the first time he fought someone who's strength might be equal or stronger, he doesn't want this be recorded as a failure in his resume. His pride won't allow it!
Moving to the turn ahead of them, Vayne put a few spells in the path that they will take before hiding around one of the dark alleyway and wait for the coach.
The moment the horses come upon him, he activate the first trap creating small shadow spikes on the road. Hurting the horses feet and making them stumble as well as damaging the coach's wheels.
When the horses step on the spikes their movement turn violent and asymmetrical before one of them stumble on a spike and topple over as the coach right wheel break off from the shaking caused by the uneven road and damages from the spikes.
The guards beside and behind it has it better as they were able to jump off the horses when they saw the spikes and land safely on the ground. But that's when two small objects flew through the air, one hitting the tip of an lamppost while the other at a small inconspicuous children drawing on the street.
The startled guards eyes couldn't be wider when the first object hit the lamppost. The moment it hit hundreds of not thousands of spears made out of shadows spawn from the side of the buildings around them and launch themselves at the still falling horses and their riders or the guy coming out of the overturned coach or the two shredded corpses by the spikes on the road.
When the second object hit the drawing, the spikes protrude into tentacles made out of shadows and grab hold of anyone or anything living on the street, effectively stopping them from evading or fighting back as the spears turn them into porcupines. well... except one...
The moment the tentacles come up the damn boss man burst his mana around him, pushing or ripping the tentacles off, and jump away into one of the alley.
Unfortunately for him that alleyway is where Vayne are hiding. The horror on the man's face when he was greeted with a sword and a dagger as he land gave Vayne a bit of satisfaction after all the trouble he put him through.
Shoving the body away, he quickly bolt away from the scene as the lights from the building around them start turning on. The residents must have been awoken by the loud noises.
After a distance away, he climb up to the nearest building and watch the crowd gathering around his crime scene and this time he make sure to watch the patrols shook their head and put a cloth over the boss man body's.
Just then he remembered a feature from the system upgrade that he never use or check before. The system log.
Opening it, his eyes could only stare blankly at it. It is basically an activity log where it put even the smallest useless details such as "Vayne took a step forward, nothing happened." When he move through the street.
Only after scrolling up did he have a smile on his face, there is a record in the log that says "Vayne stab Boss man heart and liver, critical! boss man instantly died."
It sounds kinda similar to that game with people training monster to fight for them but that's besides the point, point is his target actually died this time! This would be so much easier if he remembers it earlier, too bad it isn't automatically shown or that would be convenient.
Stretching for a bit, he quickly made his way back to his room and use the rest of the night to catch some shut-eye after changing.
"Finally, I can get some rest." He muttered to himself.
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
South of the Mizuki kingdom capital, under the light of the moon two cloaked figure walk along the grass plains heading to a mountain path.
"Are you sure we should be doing this? Leaving without a goodbye?"
"It had to be done buddy, we can't let them know our objective."
"They are our friends, shouldn't that give them enough right to know?"
"Especially because they're our friends that we shouldn't. If they know, can you guarantee they will stay the same?"
"... Your right, there's no guarantee they will. But you can at least trust them."
"I do trust them, but it's not as simple as that, is it?"
"...."
"Well enough talk, let's just find the damn thing so we can go home quicker."
"Heh, you misses my mother or something?"
"Bah more like she'll skin me for taking you away so far. I don't have a death wish by courting that lady."
"Whatever you say, hero Lucas."
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